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A MOB of weary meerkats are on the last leg of an epic journey o’er high seas and barren lands to finally arrive in... Oldham.

A thousand of the plucky creatures missed their boat from China in February, posing the tricky problem of how they were going to make the 10,500-mile journey to Dr Kershaw’s Hospice.

Undaunted, they commandeered ships and thumbed lifts in an exhausting trek which has brought them to within a whisker of the borough.

People eager to offer them a home in return for a charity donation have been flooding the hospice switchboard for weeks, anxiously waiting for news of their arrival.

And they will gather to finally welcome their possibly-exhausted creatures when they make it over the Oldham border — any day now!